What does love mean to you?

“A hawk with velvet claws”, “like a shot of espresso”, “like waking up before the sun comes out” have all been suggestions as to what it means to be in love. Body Type have their own suggestion to the age old question, love feels like a weekend.

Sometimes love doesn’t have to last forever to be enjoyed, those fleeting faces we kiss throughout our lives don’t always have to see us past sun rise, even a grazed hand can make us feel more alive. Sparks fly and many of us fluster trying to keep the flame ignited, so focused on trying to find ways to keep it going that we’re blind to it burning out.

Vocalist of Body Type, Sophie McComish explains Lotta people stressin’ about love and dating. Too much overthinking. Loving is fun. Just go all in, even if for only one night.”

And that’s what this track is all about, having fun, enjoying a no string attached format of romance. A celebration of two (or more) consenting bodies, exploring both each other and themselves in a passionate display.The song embodies what it is to be carefree, to dance like the floor was made for you to move on it, like the drinks were poured just for you, in this moment the world is inside of you, everything is possible and you are infinite. Waking up with last nights star still stuck in your eyes, your soul seemingly revived and you realise perhaps this could be something more than the burn outs you’ve been with before.

The power to thaw the harshest winter, the ice in your drink in summer, the smile on your face when you stand alone waiting for your delayed train to come, love is loud, love is a whisper, it is a stained cup left on the side as the sun begins to rise, lipstick from you lovers lips a smudged red smile left on a glass. Love is insanity, it is the biggest reason to be alive.

Lifted from their upcoming album Expired Candy, set to release on june 2nd, Weekend explores a new sound from the band since their previous single ‘Holding On’. Weekend envelops flirtatious energ,y parcelling it off with an empowering beat that plays with the tongue and cheek lyrics that promise a good time.Instrumentals imbued with influences such as Peter Bjorn and John The Young Folks, The Cardigans and Spirderbait’s Calypso but there it is body Type that give this song it’s beating heart.

Body Type, made up of Annabel Blackman (vocals, guitar), Sophie McComish (vocals, guitar), Cecil Coleman (drums, percussion), and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums (vocals, bass), formed in 2016, and have since shared acclaimed records EP1, EP2 and their debut album Everything’s Dangerous But Nothing Is Surprising to global fever and received critical acclaim from, Dork, The FADER, Stereogum, KEXP, Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson, triple j’s Declan Byrne and many more. They’ve shared stages with many household names including The Pixies, Fontaines D.C., Wolf Alice, King Gizzard and more, the group have also had headline tours in the US and UK, including a recorded session at the BBC‘s Maida Vale studios.

Their upcoming Tour kicks off in June with the Thu 29 June – Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, BR followed by
Fri 30 Jun – Roskilde Festival – Roskilde, DK Sat 1 July – Stadsgårdsterminalen, Stockholm, SE Mon 3 July – Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL Tues 4 July – La Boule Noir, Paris, FR Wed 5 July – The Lexington, London, UK Thurs 6 July – YES Basement, Manchester, UK. Keep up to date with the girls by following them on their socials.

After their debut album  Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising which was released independently and nominated for a Australian Music Prize, received praise far and wide from the likes of Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NME, DIY, Frankie, Clash, Dork, The Line Of Best Fit and more, as well as airplay from  BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders) and BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq) , their next album, Expired Candy comes with high expectations.

The band prepares to exceed them by revelling in the space they’ve carved out. Expired Candy promises to be, sweet, acidic, tough and undeniable all at once. Filled with “hope, love, and danger, dancing with delicious uncertainty.”The album delivers on all angles of relationships from “mothers, sisters, dogs, nans; family tantrums, forward motion, falling in love, platonic or romantic, with someone or self”. Whatever it is your heart is yearning for, Body type are likely to have a dollop of it in their “flirty, feral and defiant way”.

Including singles such as the  anthemic ‘Holding On’ and witty, anti-establishment ‘Miss The World’, Expired Candy  promises to be a euphoric, lawless rock record, characterised by unfaltering intensity. Guitars spit and swell as they slice through harmonies inspired by the interruption of everyday monotony with echoes of elation. Vocals knot together, producing ecstatic, slanted melodies. An album that challenges the unequivocal dead end after desolation and despair, one that changes the inevitable, finding that stagnation may serve as the perfect breeding ground for joyous bewilderment, an oasis leading to an inflamed imagination. Like the stale confection of its title, Expired Candy is a blistering listen because of the way it transforms gloom into resistance.